For some high school football seniors, the frustrations of a season-ending knee injury can led to the usual frustrations: there is no way to make an impact and it’s the end of the road in athletics. Dr. Mark Adams has proven that it doesn’t have to be that way, that someone who loves sports can… Read more »
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Randy Albrecht
He had grown up not far from St. Louis, just to the southwest of the metro area, and basically lived and breathed the game of basketball. For Randy Albrecht, you could say that coaching the sport was his destiny. After all, he lived right across the street from the local high school and often attended… Read more »
Harold Alcorn
Harold was born on October 29, 1934 in St. Louis, MO. Harold’s love for basketball started early in his life, and his natural ability and dedication to the game paved the way for his all-star career at McKinley High School. His collegiate career began at Southern Methodist University, but he transferred to Saint Louis University… Read more »
Mike Alden
Mike Alden has been at the helm of Missouri athletics since 1998, and it’s no shock his tenure has produced the most comprehensive run of athletic and academic success in school history. Through capital campaign efforts, Alden has overseen more than $265 million in private gifts for Tiger Athletics and, in 2014, Mizzou’s Memorial Stadium… Read more »
Mahlon Aldridge
Mahlon R. Aldridge, Jr., also known as the“Voice of the Tigers” for 28 years, started his career as a reporter for the Jefferson City News-Tribune and by officiating basketball games in the late 1930s. He initiated Missouri Tiger football and basketball play-by-play on KFRU in 1946, and after buying the station he started the Missouri… Read more »
Steve Alford
A few years back, sports journalists and fans around in the basketball-crazy state of Indiana, created an unofficial list of the five greatest products from the state’s prep ranks. It was a list that went beyond normal all-state or all-America honors or college or even professional heroics. It’s not clear if the list was written… Read more »
Forrest “Phog” Allen
Forrest C. “Phog” Allen was a basketball legend in his incredible 39 years at the University of Kansas, winning 771 games. Phog was born in Jamestown, Missouri in 1885. Allen had a remarkable record in which all but the first 10 years of coaching were spent at the University of Kansas. He won 31 conference… Read more »
Jerry Anderson
Jerry Anderson came to Missouri State University from Marshfield and lettered four years each in basketball and track between 1951 and 1955. He was a standout track performer as a broad jumper, high jumper, and sprinter. But it was in basketball that he achieved the most acclaim, both for himself and for his school. He… Read more »
Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson played collegiately at the University of Missouri from 1973-1977, where in 1976, he was a part of Norm Stewart’s first Big 8 Conference championship team. He led the league in scoring and was named Big 8 Player of the Year in 1977. Anderson scored 1,289 points in his career to rank among Missouri’s… Read more »
Kathy Anderson
It could be said Kathy Anderson’s athletic life has come full circle. She was an All-America student-athlete at the University of Central Missouri, she’s had her No. 32 retired in Jennies basketball and is a member of the UCM Athletic Hall of Fame. Now Anderson sees to it that Central Missouri student-athletes achieve their… Read more »
Jerry Armstrong
To Jerry Armstrong, the cause was bigger than one individual. Decades after he was part of the 1966 Texas Western team that used the first all-black lineup to win an NCAA Tournament – Armstrong never got in the game that night — the Missouri native received an apology from coach Don Haskins. “I said, ‘Well,… Read more »
Tony Armstrong
It’s almost as if an author dreamed up one of the most compelling American sports stories, grabbed a notepad and, lo and behold, produced a New York Times best-seller. After all, how else to explain Tony Armstrong’s coaching career? He was the kid who once shot hoops in a southwest Missouri armory and years later,… Read more »
Forest Arnold
Upon graduated from Puxico High School, he then attended Memphis State University. A giant of a man by 1950’s standards at 6’4″, he was the first All-American basketball player for the University of Memphis and still holds the following records: Third leading rebounder and the fifth leading scorer and one of three players who scored… Read more »
Horner Askins
For some former athletes, sports has a way of keeping them around, to feed their passion but also to make a major difference in the lives of young people. An excellent case in point is Horner Askins. A former high school football standout in Arkansas, he found his way to southwest Missouri as a teacher… Read more »
Larry Atwood
Larry Atwood spent 26 years teaching and coaching at Greenwood High School in Springfield and also directed the Blue and Gold Tournament until 1990, “Larry Atwood was the Blue and Gold, and the Blue and Gold was Larry Atwood,” longtime assistant coach Paul Mullins said. “He loved this town and he probably loved running (the… Read more »
Jodie Bailey
One of the true coaching legends of coaching in the St. Louis area, Bailey compiled a tremendous record of 824 wins and 198 losses in a great career that spanned 42 seasons. Along the way, Bailey managed to touch the lives of countless young men, helping them to become good men as well as good… Read more »